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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Ecuador	Morocco
Dec 31, 1999	273	12,268	28,400
Dec 31, 2000	274	12,446	28,744
Dec 31, 2001	275	12,629	29,094
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,827	29,447
Dec 31, 2003	278	13,074	29,806
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,368	30,169
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,661	30,552
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,915	30,953
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,133	31,354
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,352	31,754
Dec 31, 2009	285	14,569	32,154
Dec 31, 2010	286	14,786	32,553
Dec 31, 2011	287	15,002	32,951
Dec 31, 2012	288	15,218	33,346
Dec 31, 2013	289	15,433	33,737
Dec 31, 2014	290	15,647	34,124
Dec 31, 2015	291	15,860	34,511
Dec 31, 2016	291	16,072	34,898
Dec 31, 2017	292	16,282	35,279
Dec 31, 2018	293	16,489	35,653
Dec 31, 2019	294	16,693	36,018
Dec 31, 2020	294	16,894	36,375
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,093	36,723
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,288	37,101

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

No separate list is published for Barbados, Morocco; the database as a whole is cited above.